Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Music
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Music can change the world because it can change people.
-Bono
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
-Jodi Picoult
"Sing You Home"
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
